Periods in texting considered aggressive

When I was a Senior in high school, I gave a speech on “Law Enforcement In Today’s Society.” In that speech, I started out a sentence by saying, “Irregardless.” My English teacher stopped me right there and after he pontificated for about 5 minutes why we shouldn’t use that word, he allowed me to continue. I still received an A for the speech, but I thought for sure he was going to knock me down a notch for saying that word.
 

To me, sleep in = turn off alarm and go back to sleep... deliberately.
Oversleep = suddenly wake and realize you are late for work, appt, etc. ... resulting in rushing to get dressed and out the door.
 
i never sleep in. oh ok. i slept in a few weeks ago I guess. Woke at 6.00am instead of 5.00am.
but you will never find me in bed after 7.
 

I dunno, in certain area the citizenry have unique names such as Toto.
Give it a think, should it be spelled Totoo or Twotwo, how about Totootwo?
That should confuse everybody, huh?
I was given the name Poppyto, which met the neighborhood criteria, don't ask me how to spell it.

I'm again'it, standard English; yea, you gott'a use it in correspondence, but if you went down to the schoolhouse
and learned how to write and spell correctly, you are now free to write and speak any old way you want'a in informal
situations.
There are segments of society wherein the constant use of standard English will result in 'funny looks'.
Also, if your a native of several regions in this nation and do not use colloquial or vernacular speech. your considered
a 'smart ass.'
We think, speak and write as do the people in our culture or origin. If you want another way of saying it,
were ruint by them what raised us.
 
Ronni said:
The net is abounding with explanations for the textspeak rules and accommodations that add emphasis or intent to what we're texting. The use of periods and ellipses for example do not communicate the same thing in texts that they do an email or written letter. This variation is called situational code switching, which simply is when we change how we talk depending on where we are, who we're talking to or how we're communicating.

This is why you sound like a jerk when you text a period

Millennials also consider voice calling to be intrusive and rude, which apparently is why there is such a proliferation of texting over calling with that age group.

Text rather than talk
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It’s nuts. My son is 27 and he will have a week long conversation with a girl he met on a dating site on text. Not one phone call. Then when he meets her he complains she’s not what she said she was. Those phone conversations are so important to get to know someone. Plus I firmly believe constant all day texting is so bad for relationships. What do you have to talk about when you’re together, it’s all been said. When I dated my husband we talked over the land line once a night. I think texting is messing up human connections.
 
Kimwhiz said:
It’s nuts. My son is 27 and he will have a week long conversation with a girl he met on a dating site on text. Not one phone call. Then when he meets her he complains she’s not what she said she was. Those phone conversations are so important to get to know someone. Plus I firmly believe constant all day texting is so bad for relationships. What do you have to talk about when you’re together, it’s all been said. When I dated my husband we talked over the land line once a night. I think texting is messing up human connections.
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You are so right Kim. Something important is lost in a life of texting. Casual conversation about less important stuff .. fine.
But getting to know someone just doesn't make sense.
 
Texting is not dating.
Texting = punching buttons on a phone.

Also, so many people say they met someone on a dating site when the truth is they're just exchanging messages (texts/emails) with someone who they haven't met and spent time with in person. Even if they've talked on the phone, that's not dating.
 
I know plenty of younger couples who've met via dating websites, texted for a week or two, had a phone call or two (or none at all), met in person, fell in love, and have formed loving families. Talking on the phone for hours was not part of my children's dating ritual, though it was certainly an important part of mine.

My grandmother used to call on her friends, my mother sent cards and letters to hers, I phoned mine, my kids text theirs. Each generation finds a way to communicate. And also to criticize, it would seem.
 

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